Carbon Tax Hoaxsters Snare Trump Followers with Fake PR

Of course today is April Fools Day, and all sorts of shenanigans are about. This is why I ran my Friday Funny yesterday, because I didn’t want it taken for a prank. With Carbon Tax proponents, it’s just another day of pulling the wool over your eyes. Today, an outfit called “Carbon Pulse” created a fake news story saying Donald Trump wants to pass a carbon tax to pay for a wall on the Mexican border.

A nationwide carbon tax could raise enough revenues to fund the construction of a wall between the US and Mexico, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump announced Friday morning in a surprise policy U-turn on the climate change issue.

Yeah right, it doesn’t pass the smell test.

Here’s a screencap of the article.

A couple of outlets picked it up, and there’s been some Twitterring about it.

If they’d bother to read the last line of the PR story, they’d notice:

Some more details on Trump’s and Cruz’s proposals can be found by spelling out the two words formed using the first letter of every paragraph in this story.

That of course spells “April Fools”.

Of course, there’s a far easier way than a tax, just sell carbon credits to the gullible:

Yes, Mark. The Electrolyte College actually decides who will be President. Each Electrolyte is pledged to the candidate in each state proportional to the votes received, but they can actually vote for any of the candidates on the ballot, as opposed to a direct in a Democ…. What’s that? Electrolyte not Electoral???
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Was about to note that. Anything can be expected from Trump. Except, of course, for whatever he has already promised…
Hmmm. Campaign goes on long enough, and we’ll have his actual platform just by eliminating everything that he’s ever said it is. (Assuming there is anything left, of course…)

Ok, I really don’t care for defending Trump, but saying you’ll build a wall and Mexico will pay for it doesn’t mean telling the Mexican treasury to write a check, it means increasing tarrifs and earmarking that $ for a wall project. Personally, I’m a free trade kinda guy. I don’t care for building a wall, but the feasibility is not reliant on Mexican approval at all and the idea is not nearly as “simple-minded” as it’s being made out to be.

GWPF ran this story, but as it’sfool’s day the intent seemed obvious. Mind, I sent it to a mate at work and his reply was dealy serious, so I assume it wasn’t quite such an obvious wind-up as I thought.

Somewhat interesting coincidence;
There was a FBI agent that wrote a memo about Dealy Plaza 52 years ago … he had concerns about the traffic, not the safety, as the motorcade would be leaving “Deadly Plaza”, and he asked that the local authorities others look into possible traffic congestion mitigation.
This memo was suppressed, only because of the ironic coincidence, and they didn’t want to have more hype.
A scan of the original memo can be found by using the first letters of each paragraph in the subject article.

The UK’s Guardian had a great April Fool. It had the Tory party announcing that “The government will use all ministerial, official and diplomatic levers to help save their jobs”. Oh Wait it wasn’t an April fool, well could have fooled me

Only time will tell, however, as to whether Trump’s plan will come to fruition, as he faces fierce competition from Texas Senator Ted Cruz for the Republican nomination – a rival who himself has proposed his own controversial strategy for the US to adapt to climate change.
Looking towards his birth nation, Cruz said that if elected he would invade Canada and relocate the entire US north to gain better access to cleaner water and better beer.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-01/china-bans-april-fools-day-it-inconsistent-core-socialist-values
In a story that itself seemed like it may be an April fool’s joke, the WSJ writes that China’s official Xinhua News Agency has issued a warning on its viewpoint commentary microblog that antics over April Fool’s Day – a tradition it was first exposed to only in the late 1970s when it gradually opened up to foreign cultural influence – are “inconsistent with core socialist values” and at odds with Chinese cultural tradition.

You know, the saddest part is that most of the time, with the gorebull warmening scam afoot, what should be a fool’s joke is actually what these people believe and are pushing. It becomes very difficult to discern fact from fiction.

Actually double wall on the Southern border was authorized in 2006 by congress, voted for by Hillary and Obama, it was to be 400 mile long and the bill was signed by Bush. The funding was probably not 100% at that time.
One of Obama’s first act was to cancel the project because he said there were technology problems.
Wonder where the money went????
Trump is only saying the same thing except to sat Mexico will pay for it, why is this fact ignored by the Media?

It is ignored by the Media because the Media wants to present Trump in the worst light possible.
The Media are the enemies of Trump, and the enemies of all Republicans and conservatives, because most of the Media are made up of Liberal Democrats/Socialists.
The last thing they want to do is tell the truth about their political opposition.

“the Media wants to present Trump in the worst light possible”
…and Trump doesn’t try to be “antisystem” by playing a dangerous game of anti-intellectualism?
I get that many people in the US hate “intellectuals” because they have betrayed the people. They went from subtile discourse to crazy discourse and then word salad.

Glenn999, Trump has spent many years buying political influence on both sides of the aisle. He has been a huge part of the problem with Washington. To believe he is an outsider and not part of the Washington cartel is looking blindly. He is the most insider of them all!

Tom in FL
I must disagree with your assessment.
If Trump is an insider, then what is the fear by the Washington crowd. He should fit in just fine according to your logic. Just another corrupt political elite…
I agree Trump played in the current system, but as an outsider businessman maximizing his leverage.
And it’s not just me, many others agree he is an outsider in the traditional sense and not part of their club.

In order to trump the Trump and his Mexican wall, Hilary Clinton just tweeted, if elected to be the next US president she is going to put up a curtain. A purchase option with a Chinese steel manufacturer for 1000 km ‘iron curtain’ material has been arranged.

..Clinton doesn’t like being reminded the she has accepted millions from the fossil fuel industry during this campaign, screams at a liberal activist who dared to mention it !https://youtu.be/dC4Pvm6Oj4A
too funny !

The fact that many green organizations, some funded by the ultra-left-wing Rockefeller foundation, have said that the revenue from a carbon tax could be used to pay down the national debt and/or to add funding for social programs, I wouldn’t put it past our government to try and sell us a carbon tax to pay for a wall some day in the future.
The bigger issue with a carbon tax is that the government would get so much revenue that there wouldn’t be a need to raise rates on the rich.
Why is it a bigger issue? Because a carbon tax is an excellent way for the rich to keep their wealth. In fact, many rich people want a carbon tax. But what they really want is for the middle class to pay for the debt and government social programs so they can keep more of their wealth.
I used to be of the mindset that they should be taxed at the same rate as everybody else (flat tax). Now I want to stick it to them royally, especially since the DNC is now the party of the rich and that many left-wingers are rich.

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